Breaking Bads Dean Norris’ X Account was hacked to promote $ 8m crypto-scam

Breaking Bad actor Dean Norris says his account was hacked to promote Dean Meme coins, which reached a market value of more than $ 8 million.

On January 25, Dean Norris’ crypto account was hacked to promote a memory created in his equality, Dean, and exploited the actor’s celebrity status as part of a pump and dump program.

The hackers used a photoshopped image of Norris with a notepad with “$ Dean” and the launch date, causing users to believe that Norris had launched his own meme coin and promoted it on its social media.

As they were asked for more proof, the hackers prepared a video of Norris that apparently confirms the token’s launch on January 25.

“Hey it’s me Dean, and uh … January 25, I declare it’s real,” the actor said in a five -second clips.

On January 26, the Breaking Bad actor came online to clarify that his X account was hacked to “sell crypto things”. After recovering his account he posted a Video clarify that his account was hacked to promote a crypto-scam.

“This is actually Dean Norris, and the whole crazy crypto-shit was a complete false scam. I was hacked and I don’t know I just got it back,” Norris said, thanking the platform to help him to restore access to the account.

He then asked users to ignore “whatever it was” but the damage had happened.

According to Data From DEX Screener, the Dean tokenet, who was promoted on the actor’s side, had reached a market value as high as $ 8.4 million on January 25. Since the video was posted by Norris, its market value has fallen so far from its peak that it is only $ 57,000.

In the past 24 hours of trade, Dean has fallen by almost 76%. The token’s trading volume is $ 263,000, while its liquidity is $ 46,000. The Solana (Sol)-based meme coin is currently trading with hands to $ 0.0456. Merchant masses Dean tokenet, with only five purchase orders within the last hour out of dozens of sales orders flowing in. On the chart, the token’s value has been flat for the last 12 hours.

In a separate post, Dean Norris shouting People on Reddit who accused him of launching a cryptotoken and using it to “pump and dump” tokens for a profit.

“I clicked on a couple of accounts that accused me of lying and it seems they were the ones who pumped it up !!” said Norris, adding that he did not own a telegram account and that he rarely uses his X account.